Shnayim Yomi - Bereshit - Shlishi - #3 - Rabbi Joey Haber - The Gift Hidden in Our Challenges

Did it really happen that on the first day of creation we were just punished for eternity? So now we're in shishi of and in this aliyah one of the most the story that shaped humanity is embedded in this aliyah. Hashem tells Adam don't eat from theat. And the nash comes and he convinces to convince Adam to eat from theat. And Hashem then appears to Adam and says, "You ate from the did you do it?" And Hashem and what does Adam say? The wife that you gave me. The first thing you see is take responsibility. Don't blame it on the wife. Because when Hashem then comes back with the punishment that would cause the set up the life that we live of pain and work and sometimes frustration, Hashem says because you listen to your wife, what does he mean to say? Don't blame it on anybody else. This is on you. But what is Hashem doing? He's giving us a punishment for the rest of time. There are those that understand it that way, but there are those that understand that what Hashem was doing was actually setting up man's life. And what he's saying is is that for a man to just live in and do nothing is not the right way to live. You need to work hard. Life has hardship. Life has stress. And a lot of us would do anything we could to avoid it. Hashem says, "No, that is your blessing because that's what generates your purpose and that's what generates your focus." So in this aliyah, Hashem said, "I'm not going to give man to just sit in Ghanaeden and party and have servants serving him food whenever he wants. I'm going to give man life that has challenges. And those challenges, he has the opportunity to turn them into an incredible life. In other words, turn those challenges into a blessing.